yu

• IPA^(key): /juː/

From Chinese [Term?].

yu (countable and uncountable, plural yu)

1. (archaeology, countable) An ancient Chinese wine-bucket, often having a decorative cover.
   • 1962, William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes (page 34)

     A group of slenderer yu also survive from the Shang into the early Chou period, though they are rarer than the other design […] A yu with square body in the Hakuzuru Museum is the finest of these.

2. (archaic, uncountable) Nephrite or jadeite.
   • 1818, Clarke Abel, Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, page 133:

     The Yu, although of the hardness of rock crystal, is worked into an endless variety of forms […]

   • 1826, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies:

     Another stone with which it would be interesting to compare it is the celebrated yu stone of the Chinese, which Dr. Abel, in his work on China, conjectured to be a species of nephrite […]

See you.

yu

1. Eye dialect spelling of you.

From Russian ю (ju).

yu (plural yus)

1. The letter Ю, ю.

• IPA^(key): /ju/

yu

1. mountain, hill

yu

1. Alternative form of yuw

• Loanwords in Takia, in Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook (edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor), page 761

From English you.

yu

1. you: second person singular pronoun

yu

1. water

• Transnewguinea.org, citing Shaw (1973) (see Pacific Linguistics, edited by Karl James Franklin, 1973)

From English you.

yu

1. (singular) you

• Jamaican Creole marks a distinction between singular yu and plural unu

yu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ゆ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ユ

yu

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19
• Possible Cognates Between Kamula and Pa, chart 10, page 16, in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics, issues 17-20 (1990)

yu

1. water

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

• hiu / هيو‎

From hiu, from Proto-Malayic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *hiu, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *hiu, from Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *hiu (compare Javanese hiyu), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qihu (compare Fijian qio), from Proto-Austronesian *qiSu.

• IPA^(key): /iu/
• Rhymes: -iu, -ju, -u

yu (Jawi spelling يو‎, plural yu-yu, informal first-person possessive yuku, informal second-person possessive yumu, third-person possessive yunya)

1. shark (scaleless cartilaginous fish)

yu

1. Nonstandard spelling of yū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of yú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of yǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of yù.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

yu (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) nose

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

yu

1. (Chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of yow

• “you, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 May 2018.

yu

1. sun
2. day

From English you.

yu

1. you

• yiu (alternative spelling)

Comes from Old Papiamentu "joego".

From Spanish hijo.

Compare Portuguese jovem "young" and Kabuverdianu fidju "child" (ac Jacobs).

yu

1. child (of parents)

yu

1. Alternative form of iu

• i

From English you.

• IPA^(key): /ju/

yu

1. your

yu

1. you

yu (plural wa-)

1. The locative prefix for noun class 1.

From English you.

yu (personal)

1. you (singular)
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:16:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From English you.

yu (personal)

1. you (singular)

• yutu
• yupla

• IPA^(key): [ju]

yu

1. this (inanimate)

yu

1. water
2. river

• Waskia dictionary (SIL)

yu

1. honey

• David Bellama, Cours de Zarma pour le Niger: trainee's book (1976)